Monday, July 02, 2012

"Anti-'Boston Sports Media' Sign" Weekend At Fenway

This weekend, July 6-8, it's Yankees-Red Sox at Fenway Park. Four games, on four networks. Bring your anti-Boston Sports Media signs to the ballpark! Or make them once you're inside. The media's ego has exploded, and they're making not only themselves but us look like morons. It's time to let them know that they don't represent Red Sox fans, that it's not all about them, and that they need to leave the players alone and let them play ball!

The crucial games for this are Saturday night on Fox (shown to much of the country) and Sunday night on ESPN (shown to everybody). This isn't about them, it's about the local media, so I almost feel like they'd get a kick out of showing our signs, should there be enough of us holding them. Other media has already come to the realization that the Boston writers have gone too far. Maybe Fox or ESPN will see our movement and put it on the air.

But even if they don't--who cares?! We are in control! Bring your sign to the park, snap a picture of it, and send it out to everyone via whatever. Twitter or whatever else people do. (My tweets about this can be found here if you want to re-tweet them.) Any sign you see, take a picture of it, and post it. Make videos of the signs and YouTube them. We want the world to know how we feel. You want a hashtag for this? I don't know, make one up, maybe #BostonMediaShutUp or #AntiMediaFenwaySign. And if nothing else, all the fans around you will cheer for your sign and might be inspired to make their own. And if there are enough of us with signs aimed toward the press box, the media will know we're sick of them, regardless of whether any of the signs make it on the air.

We also need to spread the word for this plan, so let's do a blitz. Use whatever you use, but tell everybody about Anti-'Boston Sports Media' Sign Weekend at Fenway Park, July 6-8. Here's the link to this post if you want to use it. Or copy/paste this: http://tinyurl.com/bostonmediashutup

The goal is that by the time we get to Saturday night, everybody's on board, and Fox is forced to make the decision not to ignore our signs. And then it all culminates in the national broadcast Sunday night on ESPN, with hundreds of creative (way better than my suggestions--you can do it!) anti-media signs all over the park, and the ESPN announcers (Tito!) laughing along, loving it.

Tip: Bring a fake, innocent sign about it being your first game at Fenway or something, and bring your markers too. Then when you're at your seat, write your real message on the back. Just in case. I don't think we'd be breaking any rules, as long as we avoid profanity and put the damn thing down when the game is going on.

There *are* some good writers among the riff-raff, of course. Gordon Edes (ESPN) and Alex Speier (WEEI) are almost always stellar. Also, the Herald's Michael Silverman never fell into the Pedro/Diva bullshit. Pedro often gave Silverman extensive interviews and I assume that was because Silverman was a fair reporter.

Thanks FenFan. I was gonna say something in the game threads at Joy of Sox this week, but between the 10:00 games and the 4th of July, it was pretty sparsely populated. And the people that were there seemed to live either in Canada, California, or the Dominican, and therefore probably weren't going to Fenway this weekend.

do you guy actually believe Josh Beckett drinking beer and eating fried chicken in the clubhouse while we had the biggest September collapse in MLB history, is the fault of the media??? The media isn't the problem, Beckett and Lackey are the problems. Those 2 chumps don't condition themselves and it's no surprise that they can't last a full year without breaking down. Beckett really stepped it up last night when we needed him. Was that media's fault too??? Losers

I want you to think about what you're saying (about these two "losers"* who have three championship rings between them). You think the Red Sox lost last year because they ate chicken and drank beer. Why do you think that? Because the media told you that. THIS IS THE PROBLEM. I'm as pissed as ANYONE that the Red Sox blew that season--and I wish they had PLAYED BETTER. I don't care what they do in the clubhouse. Everything you're saying comes straight out of the mouth of the media. You repeat it like it's something only you discovered. Thanks for making my point about this.

*Unless you're calling this blog, written by ONE person as evident by the title, "losers," plural.

And Jesus fucking Christ you fucking dipshit, do you not see the stupid shit the media is saying overall? We can win 5 in a row, and the assholes just find some fake drama. Aren't you fucking sick of it?

By the way you fucking brainless frog-fucking repeatin' shit, there's ONE fucking rule of commenting here, it's to leave a name if you're anonymous. I only allow anonymous comments so that everybody doesn't have to sign up for an account--but in that case I ask that you leave a name, and you couldn't even do that. No go back and suck some more media ass, and go repeat all the buzzwords they tell you at the water cooler. Unlikeable! The whole team is unlikeable! Panic!!!!!!